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{t:Old Maid In The Garret} {artist:Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem} {key: G} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z7_KHt94u8 {c: Thanks to wompton on https://ultimate-guitar.com } {sos} Now I've [G] often heard it said from me father and me mother That [D] going to a wedding is the [C] making of a-[G]nother {eos} Now I've [G] often heard it said from me father and me mother That [D] going to a wedding is the [C] making of a-[G] nother Well, [G] if this be so, then I’ll [C] go without a [G] biddin Oh kind providence, won't you send me to a [D] wedding And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be, if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret Well, [G] there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking [D] Scarcely sixteen and a fe-[C] lla she was [G] courting Now [G] she’s twenty-four with a [C] son and a [G] daughter Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an [D] offer And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be, if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret I can [G] cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy [D] Rise up in the morning and [C] get the breakfast [G] ready There's [G] nothing in this wide world would [C] make me half so [G] cheery As a wee fat man who would call me his own [D] deary And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be, if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret So come [G] landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor Come [D] fiddler or come dancer, come [C] ploughboy or come [G] sailor Come [G] rich man, come poor man, come [C] fool or come [G] witty Come any man at all that will marry me for [D] pity And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be, if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret Well now [G] I'm away home for nobody's heeding No-[D] body's heeding and to [C] poor Annie’s [G] pleading I'll [G] go away home to my [C] own bitty [G] garret If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a [D] parrot And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be, if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret